The heartbroken dad of murdered five-year-old Logan Mwangi has began campaigning to have the regulation modified so estranged mother and father are advised if social companies change into concerned with their organic little one.
Logan’s Legislation would guarantee absent mother and father are notified if their little one is positioned on the kid safety register, Benjamin Mwangi stated.
Logan and his youthful sibling have been positioned on the register in March 2021 after issues have been raised about his mom Angharad Williamson’s boyfriend John Cole, who had earlier convictions for violence.
In June 2021, only a month earlier than Logan’s dying, they have been faraway from the register – that means it was believed there was now not a danger of great hurt.
Logan, a beforehand “smiling, cheerful little boy”, was found submerged within the River Ogmore in Pandy Park, Bridgend, on the morning of July 31 2021.
He had been dumped there by Cole and his then 13-year-old stepson Craig Mulligan, in the course of the night time after struggling greater than 50 exterior cuts and bruises, and “catastrophic” inner accidents, which have been likened to these suffered by victims of high-speed street accidents.
Following a trial at Cardiff Crown Courtroom, Cole, Williamson and Mulligan have been sentenced final Friday to life in jail, and advised they'd serve at the very least 29, 28 and 15 years respectively.
Choose Mrs Justice Jefford advised the court docket: “As a result of he was killed in his own residence and by his family, it's not attainable to make certain precisely what occurred to him. However what may be very clear is that, shortly earlier than his dying, this little boy – 3ft 5in in peak and weighing solely 3st 1lb – was subjected to a brutal assault.”
Mr Mwangi stated on Monday: “I don’t actually suppose anyone might actually discover the phrases to truly even clarify how any dad or mum might deal with their little one in such a disgraceful means. Or anyone can deal with a toddler in that method.
“And so looking for the phrases to attempt to clarify it in my thoughts is simply actually utterly incomprehensible. Utterly inconceivable.”
Mr Mwangi, who lives in Brentwood, Essex, stated he had been co-parenting Logan with Williamson, who moved to South Wales shortly earlier than Logan’s start in March 2016 to be nearer to her mom.
However he stated Williamson reduce off contact after starting a relationship with Cole in 2019.
“As quickly as Cole stepped on to the scene every little thing utterly modified,” Mr Mwangi stated.
“He stated that I used to be speaking to her an excessive amount of. However clearly we’d solely discuss Logan. And after that every little thing simply fell aside.
“She despatched me a nasty message saying Logan has a household now, he doesn’t want me and I’m by no means going to see my son once more.”
Mr Mwangi continued to have occasional phone contact with Logan throughout visits along with his grandmother, Williamson’s mom, at weekends.
However that quickly ended when Williamson stopped Logan visiting her mum.
“As a result of I hadn’t seen Logan in so lengthy, I had completely no data, or no thought, about what was happening. I had completely no data in anyway about what was taking place to Logan,” Mr Mwangi stated.
He advised ITV: “That is precisely what Logan’s Legislation goes to be about – to let estranged mother and father like myself truly know when their little one has gone to social companies.
“If I'd have had any inkling in anyway that Logan was recognized (to social companies), I'd have gone with a police escort and advised social companies ‘OK, I’m getting my son’s issues and I’m taking him away from this clearly hostile atmosphere. If he’s at risk, let’s make him protected’.”
A baby follow assessment – an investigation into the circumstances of Logan’s dying – is now below means and Mr Mwangi stated one of many key inquiries to be answered is why he, as Logan’s organic father, was not contacted.
Different inquiries to be explored will embody how Mulligan got here to be positioned within the household residence.
Cole and Williamson gained custody of Mulligan on July 26 2021 and he went to dwell with them at their residence in Sarn, 5 days earlier than Logan was killed.
Mulligan, now 14, was described as an already “troubled and violent boy” who had made repeated threats to kill Logan within the presence of his foster carers.
– A Logan’s Legislation petition on Change.org has up to now acquired 7,668 signatures.
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